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Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design

core plexus writes "This article describes a proposal from a Japanese corporation that wants to thrust the Interior Alaska community of Galena into international limelight by donating a new, unconventional electricity-generating plant that would light and heat the Yukon River village pollution-free for 30 years. There's a catch, of course. It's a nuclear reactor. Not a huge, Three Mile Island-type power plant but a new generation of small nuclear reactor about the size of a big spruce tree. Designers say the technology is safe, simple and cheap enough to replace diesel-fired generators as the primary energy source for villages across rural Alaska."

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  1. Re:Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Desi by Sir+Haxalot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your laptop had a meltdown?
    Are you the kind of person that says, when someone tells you a joke about a snowman. OMG IT'S FUNNIES BECAUSE HE WAS A SNOWMAN LOLZ%&%(* ?

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  2. Re:Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Desi by Sir+Haxalot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, and perhaps you should have a look at this

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  3. Re:nuclear power is cleaner.... by sjb2016 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I talked with a lady who lived there. She was born there and lived there her entire twenty-one years.

    Japanese women, so beautiful. I sometimes wonder why I didn't stay there and came back to the U.S. Oh, I'm sorry, were we talking about something else?